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busythomas
Asked: 2018-12-06 23:39:43 +0800 CST

How to update email address to receive expiry notification from letsencrypt?

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I am trying to update the old email address which was being used to recieve expiry notification from the amazing Letsencrypt. However, I did not find a way to do it amazingly :O.

What I did try however: I deleted the old certificate in the hope that certbot would have asked me regarding the new email but the fact it didn't (poor me)

I deleted the old certificate using this command

certbot delete

then I chose the domain which I would like to delete.

Then I regenerate a new letsencrypt certificate which was a success no errors found and the website was still online without any further certificate issue (prost to that!):

sudo certbot certonly --nginx -d thecompany.com

But then however, CERTBOT did not ask me for a new email address! (omg!)

And now I don't know what to do, feels like banging my head to the wall won't help, so, I let my fingers dance on my keyboard and asked this question to the nicest folks at here :).

Many thanks!

lets-encrypt

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    According to the documentation:

    --update-registration
                    With the register verb, indicates that details
                    associated with an existing registration, such as the
                    e-mail address, should be updated, rather than
                    registering a new account. (default: False)
-m EMAIL, --email EMAIL
                    Email used for registration and recovery contact. Use
                    comma to register multiple emails, ex:
                    [email protected],[email protected]. (default: Ask).
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  2. --update-registration

    is no more a valid argument, the below command worked for to update/change the email id.

    sudo certbot update_account -m <mail_id>

    Below is the snippet of the sudo certbot --help command about manage accounts.

    manage your account:
    register        Create an ACME account
    unregister      Deactivate an ACME account
    update_account  Update an ACME account
    show_account    Display account details
  --agree-tos       Agree to the ACME server's Subscriber Agreement
   -m EMAIL         Email address for important account notifications
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